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ARCHIVED Year 3: Painting and mixed media: Prehistoric painting

Discovering how and why our ancient ancestors made art, experimenting with natural materials to make homemade paints and playing with scale to paint on a range of surfaces.

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Exploring prehistoric art

Lesson 2: Charcoal animals

Lesson 3: Prehistoric palette

Lesson 4: Painting on the cave wall

Lesson 5: Hands on a cave wall

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Formal elements:

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Key vocabulary

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composition

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Knowledge organiser: Art & design – Y3 Painting and mixed-media

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "Painting and mixed media: Prehistoric painting".

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Vocabulary display – Art and design Y3: Prehistoric painting

A display version of the key vocabulary from the Prehistoric art unit.

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